Joseph "Joey Peeps" Peparelli
- Played by: Joe Maruzzo
- Appears in: "The Weight," "Calling All Cars," "Rat Pack," "Where's Johnny?," "All Happy Families...," "Irregular Around the Margins," "Marco Polo"
Joseph "Joey Peeps" Peparelli born in 1964 is an associate in Phil Leotardo's crew and an aide-de-camp to Johnny Sack. He was an avid player of golf and usually played with Johnny. Joey is drinking alongside Johnny Sack when he thought Donny K is laughing at him - this is during his beef with Ralph and his crew over an insult to Ginny Sack. Joey is unable to restrain John from following Donny outside, beating and urinating on him but Joey quickly spirits John away from the scene once he is finished. After this Joey contacts the hitman that Johnny ordered to kill Ralph Cifaretto, and subsequently tells the hitman to call off the murder when Johnny decides against it. His mother used a wheelchair and Sacramoni takes care of her financially following his murder. He is not married and lives with his mother who is confined to a wheelchair. Paulie Gualtieri makes a comment suggesting that Joey was not intelligent. Joey often goes to high-level sit-downs with Johnny Sack. During the infighting amongst the Lupertazzi crime family Joey and Billy Leotardo kill lady shylock Lorraine Calluzzo, and her partner Jason Evanina, for kicking up to Little Carmine instead of Johnny Sack. As a method of retaliation, Joey is killed by Tony Blundetto when leaving a brothel. When ordering his death, Angelo Garepe refers to him as "a friend of a friend, not a friend of ours," assuring Blundetto that Peparelli is not a made man. At Peparelli's funeral, Tony Soprano is aghast that his crew accidentally has a formal headstone carved with the name "Peeps," instead of his proper surname "Peparelli."
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